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Byju's founder Raveendran pledges homes to raise funds for staff salaries

Two homes owned by Raveendran's family in Bengaluru, in southern India, and his under-construction villa in Epsilon, a plush gated community in the city, were offered as collateral to borrow $12 mn

Edtech company Byju's calls for AGM to approve audited FY22 financials

Calls AGM to okay audited financials

Global green bonds mark second-busiest month of 2023 as issuers pounce

Issuance of all kinds of ESG bonds - green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds, or SLBs - jumped to $82.6 billion in November, up from $55.9 billion in October

What world's biggest banks really mean when they put trillions into ESG

By 2021, the role of finance in creating a greener, fairer planet was a growing part of the public debate, leading an ever greater number of lenders to produce such targets

Rishi Sunak's current polling worse than Truss with key UK voters

Just 59% of voters who backed the Conservatives under Boris Johnson at the 2019 election are sticking with the party under Sunak, the report found

COP28: Adani Green Energy to invest $22 billion toward India's 2030 goal

Electricity demand is growing 7% annually, dwarfing expansion in other economies. This led the govt to mandate the addition of both renewable and thermal capacity to prevent blackouts, the CEO said

Gautam Adani's wealth swells by $10 billion on relief stock rally

"The general view is that the worst is behind and now we will not hear about Hindenburg," said a portfolio manager said

World Bank Chief Banga hails COP28 momentum as climate pledges mount

World leaders spent the first three days at the climate conference unveiling a string of announcements from cutting methane emissions to ramping up the flow of money to poorer countries

Bitcoin hits $40,000 for the first time since May 2022 on rate reductions

The crypto industry is also awaiting the outcome of applications from the likes of BlackRock Inc. to start the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs

Modi's win in state polls seen as boosting case for equity inflow in India

India's benchmark NSE Nifty 50 Index closed at a record high on Friday while the futures climbed as much as 1.6% early on Monday

Shrinking, aging pool of workers push Japan to find new ways to fill Jobs

Earlier this year, the government committed ¥3.5 trillion ($23.6 billion) on measures to increase the birthrate, but the shortfall in available workers has been challenging employers for some time

PM Modi shouldn't chase Elon Musk for manufacturing Tesla in India

If the Indian government believes this is how to build an EV-manufacturing ecosystem, however, it ought to think again

China frames 'One Province, One Policy' plan for the financial risk

In late October, the two-day Central Financial Work Conference, which was attended by President Xi Jinping, pledged to optimise the debt structure of central and local governments

Elon Musk's cybertruck is already a production nightmare for Tesla

Last month, on the same earnings call where Musk referred to Tesla digging its own grave, he warned that the Cybertruck "has a lot of bells and whistles"

COP28 climate summit 2023: Exxon, Aramco lead emissions cut pledge

The list of national oil companies includes Brazil's Petrobras, Nigeria's NNPC and Kazakhstan's KazMunaiGaz. China's largest oil and gas companies haven't joined

US pledges $3 billion for climate aid to developing countries at COP28

The pledge of support for the Green Climate Fund, described by State Department officials ahead of a planned speech by Vice President Kamala Harris at the COP28 summit Saturday

New urgency hangs over Antony Blinken's trip as Israel-Hamas war resumes

Netanayhu, who had warned all along that the campaign would resume, was similarly unsparing in his description of Israel's goals

Donald Trump denied immunity against US election subversion charges

Trump's "four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens," the judge wrote

US Navy, UK, Oz to test AI to help crews track Chinese subs in the Pacific

The three powers said they would deploy advanced artificial intelligence algorithms on multiple systems

Adani Group plans $84 billion spending after Hindenburg market rout

During an annual address to shareholders in July, Adani announced grand expansion targets across his ports, energy and infrastructure businesses